Journal 4: Week Four

This week in Drama we successfully choreographed our Dream World's events. We all agreed on this plan and put in input. Here it is below: Audience outside with the fears KATE: Take a sit… chop chop we haven’t got all day… HURRY UP (grin and giggle) Audience sits down in semi circle where the tape is placed Annabel on stool, centre stage with black sheet over head Nina sits too far out of the semi-circle KATE: AH! Don’t sit there Nina moves further in KATE: Welcome, welcome, today we will be meeting a girl, now this victim, volunteer hahahaha lets get started Annabel has her head down Kate claps and Annabel moves her head up KATE: Yell all you like, no one can here you (smile). Why so tense… I know exactly what you need! Kate gets the fear blindfold and ties it around Annabel (smiles, laughs) KATE: hahaha well lets take a looksies inside your pretty little mind… hahahaha BLACK OUT Dodie and Laura walk on stage behind Annabel Music Lights on Dodie and Laura do peer pressure choreography. Kate comes in DODIE AND LAURA: just do it, take it. That’s better! Take it KATE: you have succumbed to the pressure now… Annabel starts crying Change music Issy and Kate behind the black board in a creepy style Dodie and Laura form group and stage talking, excluding Annabel Issy comes out and walks around ISSY: nobody likes you, they cant hear you, you’re a nobody to them Peer pressure echoes Issy Annabel runs back to her chair and Issy whispers more insults Issy uses hand motions to lift Annabel ISSY: you’re a lonely soul; you’re never going to be good enough Issy uses hand motions to drop Annabel on ground Change of music Thea and Nina go on stage and pick Annabel off Dodie, Laura and Kate behind backboard → frozen in place, Kate rips black sheet off mirror and throws out tape measures Thea and Nina grab Annabel off the floor and start measuring/strangling her with the tape. Annabel struggling. They force a shirt on her. Annabel looks in mirror and grabs belly. Thea and Nina looks at audience and grabs belly Stop Music Everyone speaks in character at Annabel – Laura, Dodie, Issy, Nina, Thea KATE: game over Everyone corrupts Annabel – face has changed to evil KATE: who’s next? So far I'm very happy with how the play is going, the idea sounds like a real nightmare but with some realism to scare the audience with what they were comfortable with. We are using a lot of techniques to get emotions across, such as when Annabel is looking in the mirror and Kate, Laura, Nina, Dodie and I all start whispering insults to do with our characters which will gradually get louder until theyre being shouted out (e.g. peer pressure: just take it!, Self consciousness: Your ugly! Your Repulsive!, Loneliness: Nobody Cares!). This will symbolise the voices and thoughts in her head getting bigger and harder to ignore until she breaks. This way the audience can hear what is going on in her head, and feel overwhelmed by all the noise. Another factor that will scare the audience is Annabel's change, this is because the audience will be used to her being the victim and the only 'good' one. When she loses, evil wins, so the audience will feel hopeless and scared. When it comes to lighting, we hope for eerie colours that make people uncomfortable and make the whole room feel like a whole different, surreal place. We have begun choosing music and decided we need a track for the introduction (something circus themed but eerie), music for the peer pressure scene (something faster paced), loneliness (sad, creepy music), self conscious (something distorted and unexpected) and the final scene (something that builds up for Annabel's change). If this was a real dreamworld that we were creating, i think that changes in temperature would make it more effective, like it getting hot as peer pressure pulls Annabel around because the scene feels demonic and the heat would link it to hell. Our goals for now are to establish music and light, bring in costumes and run through the performance as much as possible.